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We bring artistry, variety, analysis, and authority to our coverage–from new releases, Festival coverage, and anime to Criterion Tuesday, Throwback Thursday, and Award season highlights–we shine a light on the creativity and craft that makes screen stories stick with us. Every week, new articles and reviews, as well as some dependable favorites will keep you coming back to the TwilightRoom.
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– Devin Esser
Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Twilight Room Rating System
TwilightRoom’s rating system uses a simple scale that starts at 100. Because it takes partnership, creativity, and a large team of contributors to make a film or show, each project begins with a foundation of baseline points. As a result, ratings between 50 and 100 are far more common. Think of 100 as reflecting everything the film or show offers–from the dialogue to that immediate, out-of-the-theater emotional reaction.
"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul"
Ingmar Bergman
Recent Articles
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a deeply complex, dual performance-driven film that uses its confined setting and film within a film type storytelling structure to explore political oppression, emotional vulnerability, and the power of escapism, even if its heavy reliance on dialogue can feel slow at times...
April 6 – 12
The first full week of April delivers one of the best 3 day runs in television history with the premiere of the Boys season 5, Hacks season 5, best episode of Daredevil yet, and another great Invincible...
Exit 8
Exit 8 succeeds more as a psychological, game-logic driven drama than a horror film, delivering a creative and emotionally grounded 95-minute experience that works because of its concept and performances, even if it loses momentum once the concept is fully laid out...